{"id":413,"date":"2004-03-01T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T17:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/01\/pathfinder-research-on-web-based-repositories-final-report\/"},"modified":"2004-03-01T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T17:05:46","slug":"pathfinder-research-on-web-based-repositories-final-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/01\/pathfinder-research-on-web-based-repositories-final-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathfinder Research on Web-based Repositories &#8211; FINAL REPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palsgroup.org.uk\/palsweb\/palsweb.nsf\/79b0d164e01a6cb880256ae0004a0e34\/8c43ce800a9c67cd80256e370051e88a\/$FILE\/PALS%20report%20on%20Institutional%20Repositories.pdf\">Extremely Long URL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(My ISP connection dropped on my first attempt to post this, so here is a much briefer summary.)<\/p>\n<p>Useful report from Mark Ware for the Publisher and Library\/Learning Solutions (PALS) group in the U.K. which surveys the current field of &#8216;institutional repositories.&#8217; It&#8217;s nice to see that Ware doesn&#8217;t hedge at all in defining his target:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An institutional repository (IR) is defined to be a web-based database (repository) of scholarly material which is institutionally defined (as opposed to a subject-based repository); cumulative and perpetual (a collection of record); open and interoperable (e.g. using OAI-compliant software); and thus collects, stores and disseminates (is part of the process of scholarly communication). In addition, most would include long-term preservation of digital materials as a key function of IRs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report gives good summaries of the available software, some numbers to fill out the picture of the current state of adoption, and section 4 has a good overview of the issues facing institutional repository projects. &#8211; <i>SWL<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extremely Long URL (My ISP connection dropped on my first attempt to post this, so here is a much briefer summary.) Useful report from Mark Ware for the Publisher and Library\/Learning Solutions (PALS) group in the U.K. which surveys the current field of &#8216;institutional repositories.&#8217; It&#8217;s nice to see that Ware doesn&#8217;t hedge at all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/01\/pathfinder-research-on-web-based-repositories-final-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pathfinder Research on Web-based Repositories &#8211; FINAL REPORT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[352],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-repository"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}